Hero of 2022: Abortion Providers Who Refused to Quit
Mother Jones; Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/Getty Abortion is healthcare, and no law prohibiting it can eradicate its necessity. That hasn’t stopped Republican legislators from trying. Fifty-five abortion restrictions were enacted in 2022. Many of these laws target doctors and healthcare workers, threatening them with fines and jail time for providing necessary and wanted care. But…
Before Roe, a Baptist Preacher Performed Abortions in Secret. Now He’s Helping Texans.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first thing Dr. Curtis Boyd did when he arrived at work one cloudy Monday morning in January was turn on his radio. It was 1973, and Boyd, an ordained Baptist minister, had been providing underground abortions for five…
Was the Anti-Abortion Influence Campaign an Open Secret at the Supreme Court?
Eric Lee/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, the Reverend Robert Schenck testified before Congress about the anti-abortion influence campaign he ran targeting the Supreme Court, recounting the bombshell revelations that have clouded the highest court in scandal first reported in November by the…
Doctors Should Break the Law to Offer Abortions Sometimes, Says New Guidance From Medical Leaders
Arvin Temkar/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The people who write laws banning abortion are usually not doctors. As a result, medical providers in states that have restricted abortion access after the fall of Roe v. Wade have been left in the…
Abortion Rights Are a Winning Strategy
Mother Jones illustration; Gina M Randazzo/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In state after state on Election Day, voters sent a resounding message: “Abortion rights matter to us.” They didn’t only matter in California and Vermont, where voters chose to guarantee abortion rights in their…
Abortion Is on the Ballot in Arizona. This Activist Is Worried Voters Have Forgotten.
Abortion rights activists march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end federal abortion rights protections on Saturday, July 9, 2022 in Washington, DC. USA. The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health case overturns the landmark 50-year-old Roe v Wade case, removing a federal right to…